The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.
Thanks for the detailed report on this. I was aware of some changes being made, but the whole policy smacks of involuntary human experimentation, to prove a predetermined conclusion at any price.
When combined with the very high rate of imprisonment in the USA and the penchant for arresting and locking up anyone who is a bit “different”, particularly those now tagged “nihilistic violent extremists”, this isn’t going to end well.
The playbook of this trump regime is to lock up all transgender people and people who basically disagree with the white christian nationalist way of life. People of Color, transgender, LGBTQ2S+, anyone left of Handmaid's Tale, will be at risk of being sent to a concentration camp. They plan to institutionalize people with phyical and mental disabilities (although, now I fear the institutions mentioned might be concentration camps too). They plan on criminalizing people with mental disabilities (such as depression) while both making up what a mental disability is (like trump derangement syndrome) and punishing people who they give these labels too. Their plan is wicked at every level. Every person is at risk of being imprisoned or killed under this regime if it is allowed to continue much longer.
We need to stop this. We need to network to make the moves for practical safety plans for each transgender person and their support family (including pets). Safety, needs to be priority while courts rule and our protests grow.
For our prisoners, it seems like us of those in blue states need to bring awareness of this to our representatives and put local law into action to challenge, prevent, and not allow these human rights violating policies to go into affect. The blue states should be able to act more quickly to bring all of these horrors to court to set a winning case, which could help the cases brought up in red states. Blue states should also work on getting transfers of transgender prisoners from red states to help protect them while all of this is going down. What a fucking nightmare. I hate all of this purposeful cruelty pushed by pedo-trump and his heritage foundation ilk. Love and basic human decency must prevail! Here is to hoping one of the countries in the war (or not wanting to be dragged into the Epstein War) will release the videos of trump now so it can all fall down.
Enough with the commentary (I said what I said), what are we going to do about it? Do we keep making snarky comments, complaining, whining, crying, lying down and die or do we stand up and fight. I for one did not walk and crawl through decades of humiliation, pain, low self confidence and self-esteem to give up now! We need to formulate action plans and methods to protect ourselves as well as those in the prison industrial complex. We know all of the horrible stuff that can and will ensue but what are we going to do to protect ourselves ...
What are we willing to do to stand up to this abhorrent behavior and practices! No one is coming to save us!
This is an outstanding, and needed, report. We are in the early stages of a Trans Genocide, and this is just accelerating it. I've written a little about it.
This is horrifying and disgusting. There is no sense of morality behind this administration.
Just evil, plain and simple. It is no coincidence that conservative rhetoric about designating trans people as terrorists coincides with these policies.
They want trans people arrested and forcibly detransitioned.
thank you for covering this! I wonder if they used the language "the Bureau also adopts this policy independently of Executive Order 14,168" because of the court injunction in the Kingdom v. Trump class action lawsuit? Judge Lamberth blocked BoP enforcement of the executive order back in June (link to ACLU), and has renewed that injunction multiple times, disallowing the BoP from stopping trans healthcare. Is the Bureau of Prisons just playing a loophole game, where they're effectively enforcing the executive order, but now they're doing it through 'independent' policy decision that sidesteps the judge's injunction in Kingdom v. Trump?
That's how it seemed to me when I read Law Dork's (Chris Geidner's, linked below) article on this document, but he didn't seem to comment on the connection to Judge Lamberth's injunction in Kingdom v. Trump. Geidner said they "showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy", which made it sound like this document was produced in the very same case that the injunction came from - so maybe there's a connection there? I wish he had directly named the case he's referring to in that article, because it's a little confusing to me.
I can talk from first hand experience from Trumps first term alone and the Fact that one of his specific policy changes damn near Killed me. No joking, no hyperbole. It came very close to doing that but I also know that it was the cause of killing a lot of other Americans with similar situations of mine. That is just on one subject.
I’m not sure why it is that on the Right Isle that life is so expendable and cheap to them unless it’s abortion?
Well, I know that the abortion is less about aborting as it is about taking away any chance of gaining a chance to get that Futire child into a Far white Christian nationalist ideology.
Society has real issues when it is forced to produce babies because or to keep up the Market share of Big Corporations. Sure, there are other reasons but it’s mainly to keep market share going and that’s the wrong reasons to have.
What else gets me is the inability of the Right to make it worth while for women to have babies.
My baby days are over and yes, subsidizing families with babies will tax those who don’t have children but that is something I am not much against doing bcz I am an American who cares about America after I am passed on. The same thing with Taxes. I know that my taxes have a purpose and pay it forward or should at least so knowing that my taxes helped anybody in any state ( Red or Blue) is worthwhile.
I appreciated your written command of the subject matter. I hope the President and his cronies get to understand said words of wisdom and soon. Posthaste!
Otherwise known as torture.
I believe Amnesty defines denied needed healthcare as torture
Thanks for the detailed report on this. I was aware of some changes being made, but the whole policy smacks of involuntary human experimentation, to prove a predetermined conclusion at any price.
When combined with the very high rate of imprisonment in the USA and the penchant for arresting and locking up anyone who is a bit “different”, particularly those now tagged “nihilistic violent extremists”, this isn’t going to end well.
The playbook of this trump regime is to lock up all transgender people and people who basically disagree with the white christian nationalist way of life. People of Color, transgender, LGBTQ2S+, anyone left of Handmaid's Tale, will be at risk of being sent to a concentration camp. They plan to institutionalize people with phyical and mental disabilities (although, now I fear the institutions mentioned might be concentration camps too). They plan on criminalizing people with mental disabilities (such as depression) while both making up what a mental disability is (like trump derangement syndrome) and punishing people who they give these labels too. Their plan is wicked at every level. Every person is at risk of being imprisoned or killed under this regime if it is allowed to continue much longer.
We need to stop this. We need to network to make the moves for practical safety plans for each transgender person and their support family (including pets). Safety, needs to be priority while courts rule and our protests grow.
For our prisoners, it seems like us of those in blue states need to bring awareness of this to our representatives and put local law into action to challenge, prevent, and not allow these human rights violating policies to go into affect. The blue states should be able to act more quickly to bring all of these horrors to court to set a winning case, which could help the cases brought up in red states. Blue states should also work on getting transfers of transgender prisoners from red states to help protect them while all of this is going down. What a fucking nightmare. I hate all of this purposeful cruelty pushed by pedo-trump and his heritage foundation ilk. Love and basic human decency must prevail! Here is to hoping one of the countries in the war (or not wanting to be dragged into the Epstein War) will release the videos of trump now so it can all fall down.
They're continuing the work HITLER WAS DOING. It NEVER stopped.
there are rumors of experimentation on detainees, too…
Enough with the commentary (I said what I said), what are we going to do about it? Do we keep making snarky comments, complaining, whining, crying, lying down and die or do we stand up and fight. I for one did not walk and crawl through decades of humiliation, pain, low self confidence and self-esteem to give up now! We need to formulate action plans and methods to protect ourselves as well as those in the prison industrial complex. We know all of the horrible stuff that can and will ensue but what are we going to do to protect ourselves ...
What are we willing to do to stand up to this abhorrent behavior and practices! No one is coming to save us!
I see many trans inmates unaliving themselves if this goes through.
Just like Epstein who died by “suicide”
Who is providing this “therapy”? It would be unethical for any licensed professional I know of to do so.
That is very true. Unfortunately I don’t think they’ll ever tell us this.
Considering the state of the US government I think it's plausible the "therapy" thing is a pretense and almost nobody will get it.
This is just horrifying.
Holy fuck. It was bad for trans women when I was there, but this is Auschwitz level shit. I can handl we prison, but this... I would rather die.
This is absolutely horrific.
This is an outstanding, and needed, report. We are in the early stages of a Trans Genocide, and this is just accelerating it. I've written a little about it.
This is horrifying and disgusting. There is no sense of morality behind this administration.
this is absolutely horrific. We need to support incarcerated trans people any way we can
Just evil, plain and simple. It is no coincidence that conservative rhetoric about designating trans people as terrorists coincides with these policies.
They want trans people arrested and forcibly detransitioned.
Just sheer evil
thank you for covering this! I wonder if they used the language "the Bureau also adopts this policy independently of Executive Order 14,168" because of the court injunction in the Kingdom v. Trump class action lawsuit? Judge Lamberth blocked BoP enforcement of the executive order back in June (link to ACLU), and has renewed that injunction multiple times, disallowing the BoP from stopping trans healthcare. Is the Bureau of Prisons just playing a loophole game, where they're effectively enforcing the executive order, but now they're doing it through 'independent' policy decision that sidesteps the judge's injunction in Kingdom v. Trump?
That's how it seemed to me when I read Law Dork's (Chris Geidner's, linked below) article on this document, but he didn't seem to comment on the connection to Judge Lamberth's injunction in Kingdom v. Trump. Geidner said they "showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy", which made it sound like this document was produced in the very same case that the injunction came from - so maybe there's a connection there? I wish he had directly named the case he's referring to in that article, because it's a little confusing to me.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-judge-temporarily-enjoins-federal-prison-officials-from-withholding-health-care-from-incarcerated-trans-people
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-new-bop-anti-trans-prison-policy
This is beyond barbaric and evil. There must be a way to stop it.
I can talk from first hand experience from Trumps first term alone and the Fact that one of his specific policy changes damn near Killed me. No joking, no hyperbole. It came very close to doing that but I also know that it was the cause of killing a lot of other Americans with similar situations of mine. That is just on one subject.
I’m not sure why it is that on the Right Isle that life is so expendable and cheap to them unless it’s abortion?
Well, I know that the abortion is less about aborting as it is about taking away any chance of gaining a chance to get that Futire child into a Far white Christian nationalist ideology.
Society has real issues when it is forced to produce babies because or to keep up the Market share of Big Corporations. Sure, there are other reasons but it’s mainly to keep market share going and that’s the wrong reasons to have.
What else gets me is the inability of the Right to make it worth while for women to have babies.
My baby days are over and yes, subsidizing families with babies will tax those who don’t have children but that is something I am not much against doing bcz I am an American who cares about America after I am passed on. The same thing with Taxes. I know that my taxes have a purpose and pay it forward or should at least so knowing that my taxes helped anybody in any state ( Red or Blue) is worthwhile.
To Alessandra Vaca,
I appreciated your written command of the subject matter. I hope the President and his cronies get to understand said words of wisdom and soon. Posthaste!